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COVER
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There is a lot more to Lean practices than cutting fat.
For Boeing to stay on top as an aerospace leader, continue
to win new business across the enterprise, and create
and sustain jobs, it must constantly locate ways to make
its products cost-competitive. Lean practices are doing
just that.
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MAIN FEATURE
The future is now for Launch
Services
Prognosticators foresee two possibilities over the next
few years in the launch ser-vices industry: recovery
of the flailing satellite market, or a shakeout of launch
providers. Boeing Launch Services isn’t waiting
around. It’s actively finding ways to provide the
best value for its customers to create growth in a flat
market.
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INTEGRATED DEFENSE
SYSTEMS
CIEL appeal
Designing a satellite is no easy task. But a breakthrough
method called the Concurrent Integrated Engineering
Lab, CIEL, is simplifying the process for Boeing Satellite
Systems.
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COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES
The joys of less noise
The noise produced by the Boeing 717-200 is 12 times
less than its predecessor, the DC-9. And Boeing Commercial
Airplanes continues work toward its goal to produce
airplanes that are seen, but much less heard.
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CONNEXION BY BOEING
Looking for the customers’
Connexion
Actively engaging the customer is helping Connexion
by Boeing to reduce the risk of bringing technological
whiz-bangs to the marketplace.
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PHANTOM WORKS
In the starting rotation
The design of the X-50A Canard Rotor/Wing is validated
after it successfully achieves 100 percent rotor spin
rates.
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